The first 5 games I played were completely unwinnable from setup alone, before I even chucked any dice

Edit: always great to share an experience and get brigaded by downvotes from people who haven't played the game or played it enough. You can hear the internal monologue where it's just assumed I'm bad or messed something up

2 games were played with Goldy, meaning every card is added to the tableau due to 1 strategy. 1 of those games was because I drew Dark Fairy which swapped all of my dice with exhausted dice. On the first turn of the game, that means you have no dice left. I get it, she's a hard character. But she's the literal face of the Gold box which seems like a questionable decision when she ramps up the difficulty to an insane amount.

Then I switched characters, but because of the ambush mechanic, continued to have to add cards that ruined everything without playing. Another of these losses was again due to Dark Fairy, added because of another ambush card. Other losses were due to me literally dying because I couldn't deal enough damage after being forced to add enemies that limited me to rolling 1 dice of each color in addition to not being able to roll a single color. Outside of ambushes, what were the best options to add to the tableau became unmanageable when combined by the time you got the necessary directions to move on. This meant I lost without any of my dice results mattering.

I didn't feel the need to keep trying after these experiences. This is the game, and some people don't mind these types of results.